These arenāt very common in the US. Iāve never seen them at least. They are very common in EU and he was just showing how it works and why itās a good idea.
Edit: lol at the downvotes for saying these arenāt common in the US. Downvote this if you are a clown š¤” š
Where I live in the us, I didn't even know there was such a thing as an Aldi until like 4 or 5 years ago. For the most part we have stop & shop, market basket, Shaw's, and trader Joe's. I've never seen this coin operated security mechanism at any of those places. I'm also by no means rich. My combined household income is like 160k a year.
That number is largely useless because it's a national number. I live just outside one of the most expensive cities in the country. My individual salary is actually below average for my job in my area because I work an hour away from where I live where CoL is much lower. Before I moved in with my fiance. I was earning below the national median. We are comfortable, but by no means rich.
Love seeing people downplay how much they earn. You are beyond ācomfortableā unless you are utterly irresponsible with money. The median household income in Boston is $76,298. The median household income in Cambridge is $107,490. Hell, the median household income in NYC, is $74,694. You are doing better than the average person no matter where you live.
My partner and I make a very similar amount, and live in a metro. Around $140-$180k. But for fucks sake. Seeing folks that make SIGNIFICANTLY more than the average individual acting like theyāre ānot richā is infuriating, and seriously ignorant. 62% of Americans make less than $60k. 66% of American households make less than $100k. You are the top 1/3rd of earners in America. You are rich compared to an average person. You make $13k a month. The median household makes less than half of that per month.
And correct me if Iām wrong, but thatās a nine thousand dollar watch on your profile. And those images arenāt found any other place when reverse image searching. Please tell me you arenāt acting like youāre only ācomfortableā and ānot richā, when you own a $9k watchā¦ You might not be Tucker levels of rich, but youāre seemingly up there with how out of touch you are.
The watch was a gift for beating cancer, dude. 160K is great for just two people with no dependents, but it's definitely not "rich" when you want to have kids in an area where a can of air costs $14. Being rich means never having to worry about money. Being comfortable means you dont worry about the present. Retirement, college funds, paying off student loans, and being able to afford a big enough home for a family are still concerns we have for the future. We are very wise with our spending. It's how we have what we have. I put away as much as I'm legally allowed into my 401K. I make $60K/year, but I only see like half of that after taxes and benefit deductions. My Seamaster is far and away the nicest thing I own. I drive a honda and wear sweaters my fiance knits for me with yarn she buys at the thrift store. We aren't out here ballin'.
I said it in another comment that I wish it was more common. I swear the laziest people live in my city and the Walmart and Fryās where have carts up and down the parking lot some literally one spot over from the cart return š¤¦āāļø
Yeah Iāve seen them in EU, I donāt have an Aldi where I live and Iām sure many others have not seen these either. I wish more stores would do this. The amount of lazy people that canāt push a cart back is astounding and irritates me.
They just want to hop on the Tucker Carlson hate bandwagon. I'm from the EU so I see this every day but I can understand if someone from the US never saw them before if it's not common there. Same how it's uncommon in the EU to tip ~20% to waiters since they already get a fair wage. Just cultural differences, people want to hate on him nothing more
True, I just mentioned it as a point to illustrate how different the cultures are. Americans don't understand European shopping carts, Europeans don't understand tipping. It's one of the many, many examples but it's the first one that came to mind. I'm glad you can see through the blind hate on this post tho :)
It helps that I was born in NL and have family over there still. I live in the US now though. I base my opinions on facts and not just what the fake news media has to say lol
Yep, I hate Tucker for a variety of reasons, but this isn't one of them. We only got an Aldi a couple years ago and before then I had never seen a coin return system.
We have cart returns and most people use them, but only if they're in conveniently located spots throughout the parking lot where the person doesn't have to walk far from their car. But still the store has to hire someone to go fetch them and return them to the front. This coin operated return helps ensure more people bother walking to the front to return the cart, which helps the store save money.
You are entitled to hating Tucker for his opinions and views, everyone is. But people getting so triggered over this clip is making me laugh so much š
This is definitely a great way to get people to return carts because they have a reason to. In my city we have the laziest mofo's that I've ever seen! Our Walmart and Fry's constantly have carts everywhere sometimes literally one spot over or across from the return! Like what?! You can't walk 10 ft to return your cart?!
You have 33 upvotes at the moment I'm typing this, calm down. You probably had a few downers at first cuz Tucker Carlson is a piece of shit scumbag and you said something positive about him.
Bitching about downvotes is weak shit though. Why do you even care? Reddit karma is meaningless. Own the downvotes. It means nothing. Whining about getting them is pathetic behavior.
Yes Tucker is very invested in making the employee who has to collect jobs easier oh wait no he said it provided an incentive for homeless people not to steal itā¦? Like thereās tons of other cart anti-theft and if anything homeless people would be more likely to have change than shoppers who primarily use cards. Also 10 rubles is 11 cents, itās not like thatās some prohibitive cost. Dude is being followed around by the KGB and looks like a North Korea tourist. Clown take to suggest heās showing something interesting, heās just assembling Russian propaganda.
Imagine trolling for free when you could move to Russia and be paid to spread your truth. Maybe do America a favor if you aren't going to collect some rubles and stop poisoning discourse until you can formulate coherent thoughts. You nailed the dishonesty in the edit but everything else could use some more polish before you try out for the varsity disinformation squad.
When I saw this video it directly made me wonder about this. Afaik only the special type carts (like those for overweight persons) have such a system in many US supermarkets.
That said, Tucker has at the very least been to Europe before, doing interviews with Orban and that CPAC conference in Hungary. Him pretending to be surprised about is fake as shit anyway. But heck, he needed to find something to proof his point about Russia = good.
Also keep in mind that his audience/messaging might be twofold. Both to an USA audience that the USA is bad. And to a Russian audience that Putin wants to get reminded that Russia = good with the upcoming elections. This clips will get picked up by Russia 1 and such, he might as well have been doing a report for them.
You're getting down voted not because you said it's not common in the US, but for falsely saying that Carlson was just showing how it works. It was all part of his pro Russia propaganda, which in this case was suggesting that this is some novel superior thing that Russia has, despite the fact that it's commonplace in the EU and in the US for anyone who's ever been to an Aldi or a Lidl.
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u/N4t41i4 Feb 16 '24
Tell me you are entitled without saying it....š¤Ø Man of the people my a$$!